Apple and Google also make devices that are designed to listen for requests in the home. Here's a closer look at how they handle your voice requests.
the level of privacy users should expect by inviting a device that's designed to listen into the home. Now, more than three years later, having a virtual assistant like Alexa everywhere from the living room to the kitchen feels like the norm.published a report indicating that Amazon employees and contractors manually review and transcribe clips of conversations Alexa users have with the company's digital assistant.
Amazon is far from the only major tech firm that sells voice-activated devices designed to listen for requests. Amazon may be the current industry leader, but Google's line of Google Assistant-powered smart speakers is slowly gaining sizable market share. Virtual assistants from Amazon, Google, and Apple only monitor your utterances when they hear the corresponding wake word. Google and Amazon allow you to delete all of your voice requests at any time, and Echo device owners can opt out of having their voice requests shared with Amazon's team for review.Olly Curtis/Future Publishing via Getty Images
But that doesn't mean Apple can tell that it's you when you ask Siri a question. Your request and the information from your contact card is tied to a random identifier that your device generates — meaning none of the data sent to Apple's servers is associated with your Apple ID account.
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